The Marginalization of Poetry: Language Writing and Literary HistoryPrinceton University Press, 09/02/2021 - 196 páginas Language writing, the most controversial avant-garde movement in contemporary American poetry, appeals strongly to writers and readers interested in the politics of postmodernism and in iconoclastic poetic form. Drawing on materials from popular culture, avoiding the standard stylistic indications of poetic lyricism, and using nonsequential sentences are some of the ways in which language writers make poetry a more open and participatory process for the readers. Reading this kind of writing, however, may not come easily in a culture where poetry is treated as property of a special class. It is this barrier that Bob Perelman seeks to break down in this fascinating and comprehensive account of the language writing movement. A leading language writer himself, Perelman offers insights into the history of the movement and discusses the political and theoretical implications of the writing. He provides detailed readings of work by Lyn Hejinian, Ron Silliman, and Charles Bernstein, among many others, and compares it to a wide range of other contemporary and modern American poetry. |
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... critical book and not simply a celebration or an example of language writing . In places I've departed from the standard protocols of professional criticism : I would like the formal gestures to register as significant without ...
... critical prose can be seen as elongated , smooth - edged rectangles of writing , the sequences of words chopped into arbitrary lines by the typesetter ( Ruth in tears amid the alien corn ) , and into pages by publishing processes . This ...
... critical edition , the facsimile of Pound's editing - creation of what became Eliot's Waste Land ; the packets into which Dickinson sewed her poems , where the sequences possibly embody a higher order ; the notebooks in which Stein and ...
... critical decorum , Glas is , in its treatment of the philosophical tradition , decorous ; it is marginalia , and the master page of Hegel is still Hegel , and Genet is Hegel too . But a self - critical poetry , minus the short ...
... critical poetry ... might dissolve the antinomies of marginality ” -- that it might redraw or undo generic boundaries between poetry and criticism . By displaying its arbitrary form , the piece is willful in challenging distinctions ...
Índice
The Avantgarde Particulars | 38 |
The New Sentence in Theory | 59 |
Orthography and Community | 79 |
Bruce Andrews | 96 |
Eight An Alphabet of Literary History | 144 |
NOTES | 167 |
INDEX | 183 |
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The Marginalization of Poetry: Language Writing and Literary History Bob Perelman Pré-visualização limitada - 1996 |
The Marginalization of Poetry: Language Writing and Literary History Bob Perelman Pré-visualização limitada - 1996 |
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